Current forest fires in Indonesia
12 October 2015
Heavy smoke continues to pour from peat fires in Sumatra, Indonesia. On October 4, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of smoke streaming over southern Sumatra. Red outlines indicate hot spots where the sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Gray smoke hovers over the island and has triggered air quality alerts and health warnings in Indonesia and neighboring countries.
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
WildlandFire relatednews from the Media: Note: The hyperlinks on the left side of each news are password-protected (User ID and password to enter the GFMC database are
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establishment of the internal GFMC database):
- Indonesia: Water bombing operations to put out forest fires start in south Sumatra (published by http://www.channelnewsasia.com 11 October 2015)
- Indonesia / Malaysia: Malaysia sends help to Sumatra to fight forest fires (published by http://www.themalaysianinsider.com 09 October 2015)
- Indonesia: Foreign aid for forest fire arrives in Indonesia (published by http://www.shanghaidaily.com 09 October 2015)
- Indonesia: Indonesian forest fires on track to emit more CO2 than UK (published by www.theguardian.com 07 October 2015)
- Indonesia: Palm oil giant stops buying from firm implicated in haze (published by www.straitstimes.com 24 September 2015)
- Singapore: Thickening haze from Indonesia forest fires dampens Muslim, Chinese festivities in Singapore (published by www.foxnews.com 24 September 2015)
- Malaysia: Malaysia is expected to upgrade its existing haze monitoring system in the next two years. (published by www.aseanpeat.net 23 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Indonesia suspends, revokes business licenses of firms burning forest (published by www.shanghaidaily.com 22 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Forest Fires Linked to Regional Elections? (published by www.globalindonesianvoices.com 21 September 2015)
- Malaysia/Indonesia: The heavy price of haze (published by www.nst.com.my 20 September 2015)
- Australia: Hi-tech lifesavers for firies trapped in bushfires (published by www.watoday.com.au 19 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Indonesian haze: Why it’s everyone’s problem (published by http://edition.cnn.com 18 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Haze crisis turns deadly (published by www.thejakartapost.com 14 September 2015)
- ASEAN: ASEAN needs $10 billion to tackle deadly forest fires: scientist (published by www.thejakartapost.com 14 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Indonesia rules out evacuations in forest fire areas (published by www.smh.com.au 14 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Getting the facts right on Indonesias haze problems (published by www.themalaymailonline.com 14 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Record fine against plantation company upheld (published by www.thejakartapost.com 13 September 2015)
- Indonesia/Singapore: Indonesia accepts Singapore’s offer to fight forest fires (published by www.channelnewsasia.com 11 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Calls for govt to declare forest fires a national disaster (published by www.thejakartapost.com 10 September 2015)
- Indonesia/Malaysia/Singapore: Indonesia’s Forest Fires Choke Malaysia, Singapore: ‘Burning Land….Just for Fun’ (published by www.forbes.com 10 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Thick haze puts health, air travel at risk (published by www.thejakartapost.com 07 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Haze Collapses Economy: Kadin (published by http://en.tempo.co 06 September 2015)
- Indonesia: BNPB Prepares Rp385bn to Tackle Forest Fires, Haze (published by http://en.tempo.co 06 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Jokowi calls for intensifying the fight against forest (published by www.thejakartapost.com 04 September 2015)
- Indonesia: Political economy of fire and haze: Moving to long-term solutions (published by www.eco-business.com 02 September 2015)